Area Class 1A teams open regional play with wins; 2A squads beaten

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May 20, 2010 at 12:01 AMMay 20, 2010 at 7:03 PM

BPCA, West Prairie softball stay alive

BPCA and West Prairie recorded opening-round upsets, while South Fulton also posted a victory in area high school softball action on Tuesday.
Meanwhile in local baseball, Monmouth-Roseville completed its regular season with a non-conference road win.
Softball
BPCA 7, KNOXVILLE 5
At Knoxville, the No. 6 seeded Lady Spartans (8-17) surprised the No. 3 seeded Blue Bullets on their home field to earn a semifinal date with Prairieland Conference foe Abingdon.
The two teams traded two-run rallies in the opening inning. The visitors would responded with four runs in the second against Knoxville’s Andrea Wilhite and never relinquished the lead. The lady Spartans took advantage of a walk, two hit batters, an error on a dropped flyball and a pair of hits.
BPCA scored its final run in the third using a walk, base hit and two passed ball to plate the run.
Knoxville scored twice in the fifth against BPCA pitcher Taylor Elder, but managed just one run the remainder of the contest.
WEST PRAIRIE 14,
WEST CENTRAL 12
At Stronghurst, the visiting Lady Cyclones rallied in its final at-bat to advance to a semifinal meeting against top-seeded United.
West Central (13-15), the No. 4 seed, entered the seventh inning with a 12-10 lead. However, two errors, two walks and a base hit keyed a four-run rally by West Prairie (8-15), the No. 5 seed.
Taylor Harper was the winning pitcher for the Lady Cyclones, who finished with 11 hits.
Justine Dillard led West Central with two three-run homers. Alexis Ensminger suffered the loss and gave up 11 hits and seven walks.
SOUTH FULTON 9,
ILLINI CENTRAL 2
At Ipava, the Lady Rebels advanced to a semifinal meeting against Havana in posting an opening-round victory.
South Fulton (14-16), the No. 3 seed, scored in four of the first five innings it batted. Illini Central trailed just 4-2 after 3 ½ innings, but the Lady Rebels scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth to pull away.
Tiffany Churchill (8-7) scattered six hits and three walks, striking out four. She also had a hit and knocked in a run. Erika Hickle had two hits and two RBI, while Laci Porter and Bhrea Wright also tallied one RBI each for South Fulton.
Wright and Breana Cameron recorded triples as part of the Lady Rebels eight hits.
Illini Central pitching gave up 12 walks and hit a batter.
MERCER COUNTY 12, MON-ROSEVILLE 3
In Class 2A Regional action at Aledo, the season ended for the Titans with a loss to the home team.
Mercer County scored six runs in the fifth inning to put the game out of reach for MRHS (3-19).
The Titans held a 2-1 lead in the second, thanks in part to a Tessa Barry homer. However, the Golden Eagles scored five runs in the bottom of the third to grab the lead for good.
Taylor Greenstreet and Taylor Woods (2-for-4) scored the other two runs for the Titans, with RBIs going to Tiffany Goad and Kara Abbott.
Jalynne Young took the loss, surrendering 16 hits while walking one and striking out two.
MC’s Molly Conway got the win, striking our eight while surrendering eight hits, two walks and one hit batter to the Titans.
Taylor Bennett was 3-for-4 for MC.
MIDWEST CENTRAL 11, RUSHVILLE-INDUSTRY 5
At Manito, the season ended for the Lady Rockets as they dropped an opening-round contest to the hosts.
Midwest Central jumped ahead 6-1 in the second inning as a three-run homer by Kyndi Hanson keyed a four-run inning. RIHS (5-24) scored four runs in the fourth, but Midwest Central pitcher Susan Goetze would retire nine of the Lady Rockets’ last 10 batters, including the last eight in a row.??
Katie Reische was 2-for-3 for RIHS, including a double.
Baseball
MON-ROSEVILLE 8, ROWVA 0
At Oneida, the Titans held the hosts Tigers scoreless in a make-up non-regional contest.
Starting pitcher Cody Jensen and winning pitcher Tim Chick combined to hold ROWVA to five hits as MRHS upped its record to 12-6.
Losing pitcher Jake Logan gave up two hits, three runs, five walks and struck out three for ROWVA.
It was the first game for either team in 12 days.

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